2018 Smart Home Holiday Gift Guide
Welcome to our fifth annual smart home holiday gift guide. Since we made our first shopping recommendations in 2014 we have watched the smart home market grow and become more and more mainstream. These...
Welcome to our fifth annual smart home holiday gift guide. Since we made our first shopping recommendations in 2014 we have watched the smart home market grow and become more and more mainstream. These...
When we got our very first Amazon Echo we weren’t sure exactly what to do with it. We had been looking for a speaker system to let us play music in our bedroom so...
We have been experimenting with different security cameras over the years, both inside and outside and at our mom’s house. The cameras all have had pros and cons but for the most part work...
We purchased our first Wink smart home Hub in 2014, from Home Depot, not too long after it first became available. At the time we had been experimenting with other smart home hubs, including...
As we head into 2017, after more than three years on our journey to automate our home, it’s a good time to reflect about how far we have come and how the products have...
Welcome to our third annual smart home holiday gift guide. As we get ready to start our fourth year of AppMyHome, it is really interesting to reflect how far we have come in home...
When we first started automating our home a few years ago, one of the first devices we bought was a Wemo plug-in wall outlet. The device is so simple to use to make anything...
Welcome to our second annual smart home holiday gift guide. 2015 has been a big year for DIY home automation, with a lot of changes since last holiday season. You can see it immediately...
Over the last couple of years, we have tested several of the leading smart home hubs available in the US, including Iris, Smart Things, Staples Connect, and Wink (and compared them in November 2014). While...